Media's Presidential Bias and Decline

[boutons_]

Here's CNN being "fair and balanced", giving airtime to a total slimebag:

Author of Obama Muslim rumor replaces it with Communist rumor

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Author...anges_1027.html

I guess they figure it will sell them ads, and/or just fill up dead space in their programming.

[MannyIsGod]

Well, that was the first time I've seen anyone event ATTEMPT to approach him with questions, so I guess ABC has earned a sliver of credibility.

You want to know why thats the first time? Because you haven't been looking. You're expecting the media to spoon feed you the information and then you call "bias" when they don't give you what you want?

This is such bull . We live in a world where we have more access than ever to information and people are complaining about media bias? Complain about a lazy electorate if anything. I mean after all you yourself just displayed the problem in its fullest extent.

It is completely re ed that the people complaining about the specter of socialism are the same ones now complaining about a media bias that if it is occurring is occurring as a result of a capitalistic media who's bottom line is not fairness in information but the almighty dollar. Don't get pissed off when capitalism works against you.

[Tully365]

Whenever someone brings up the supposed bias of the media, I think about how our country is in a war... right now... and it is incredibly rare to see so much as a soldier with a band-aid on his toe, because that image (I guess) would be a real downer, and might possibly distract us all from the big substantial issues like Paris Hilton, Bill Ayers, and American Idol. The pro-war people believe the war is noble enough to risk American lives and collateral damage to innocent Iraqis, but not so much that it should be front and center in our daily news information.

[byrontx]

Hearst, Cox, Fox, Murdock and they still !

Here's some news for you-the right controls the noise machine and, for the most part, the press. You only about the news sources you do not control as of yet. Bush would have been out of office and in a jail cell if we had a responsible press.

[DarrinS]

You want to know why thats the first time? Because you haven't been looking. You're expecting the media to spoon feed you the information and then you call "bias" when they don't give you what you want?

This is such bull . We live in a world where we have more access than ever to information and people are complaining about media bias? Complain about a lazy electorate if anything. I mean after all you yourself just displayed the problem in its fullest extent.

It is completely re ed that the people complaining about the specter of socialism are the same ones now complaining about a media bias that if it is occurring is occurring as a result of a capitalistic media who's bottom line is not fairness in information but the almighty dollar. Don't get pissed off when capitalism works against you.

Dude, the first time I've ever seen anyone approach Ayers was yesterday -- and that was the link that ChumpDumper posted. Do you have another?

And you guys that constantly slam capitalism are creeping me out. Should I not let my daughter have a lemonade stand. Or, maybe I should, but I should distribute the profits to all the kids that didn't have a lemonde stand.

[DarkReign]

And you guys that constantly slam capitalism are creeping me out. Should I not let my daughter have a lemonade stand. Or, maybe I should, but I should distribute the profits to all the kids that didn't have a lemonde stand.

You should be creeped out. IMO, privatized banks/insurance/healthcare will be things of the past in the next 10 years.

Just an opinion.

[DarrinS]

You should be creeped out. IMO, privatized banks/insurance/healthcare will be things of the past in the next 10 years.

Just an opinion.

Frightening.

[boutons_]

"constantly slam capitalism"

Capitalism, having gorged itself, is slamming the world now and for years to come.

But that's OK, whatever unregulated, predatory, rapacious capitalism does is perfectly OK for DarrinS.

Your daughter's lemonade stand? Does she have any in red herring flavor?

[DarrinS]

But that's OK, whatever unregulated, predatory, rapacious capitalism does is perfectly OK for DarrinS.

Republicans TRIED to regulate Fanny Mae, but the Dems called it a "politcal lynching" of Franklin Raines.


Raines went to Harvard Law School, with honors. LOL.

[ChumpDumper]

I blame you for all the country's problems since you voted for Obama.

[DarrinS]

I blame you for all the country's problems since you voted for Obama.

[boutons_]

"Republicans TRIED to regulate Fanny Mae"

not very seriously, and with the Repugs, such bull is smokescreen for something else, eg:

19 states, including NY/Spitzer, saw predatory lending to unqualified borrowers and tried to get it stopped. Dubya shut that down, and had a strange ruling to stop the states from regulating lenders.

btw, bogus bogeyman ACORN also agitated against predatory lenders snagging poor people they service, but were ignored and blocked.

[RandomGuy]

Please let us all know how one gets an interview with a person who is categorically not granting interviews.

"Joe the Plumber"? Please. He eagerly d himself out to anyone who would listen.

There have been plenty of things on ayers and rezco all the rest.

It just gets drowned out because in the end, there isn't anything really there, and it gets extremely old after a while.

The right wouldn't be happy unless they had pictures of Obama lobbing bombs at the Pentagon, and taking a suitcase of money from Rezco, because that is what they have spun this to be.

The reality of either relationship was much tamer and much more boring.

The truth squads that really looked into both came back with little or nothing to show for it. No smoking guns, no nothing.

To claim that there wasn't ANY look into it, is to ignore all of the stories of those that did.

[RandomGuy]

You should be creeped out. IMO, privatized banks/insurance/healthcare will be things of the past in the next 10 years.

Just an opinion.

We'll see.

I doubt the doom and gloom stuff will happen.

People who predict radical change tend to discount the simple inertia of the status quo.

I have no doubt the next 10 years will bring some change with it, but thinking that the financial and healthcare sector will somehow be completely nationalized in 10 years seems to be a bit of an extreme prediction to me.

[MannyIsGod]

Dude, the first time I've ever seen anyone approach Ayers was yesterday -- and that was the link that ChumpDumper posted. Do you have another?

And you guys that constantly slam capitalism are creeping me out. Should I not let my daughter have a lemonade stand. Or, maybe I should, but I should distribute the profits to all the kids that didn't have a lemonde stand.

I'm not slamming capitalism. I'm slamming people complaining about a loss of "fairness" they get due capitalism. There is no media bias to Obama. There is a media bias to money and its easier to sell a young handsome black man than an old torn up white man.

If you want the media to have a more even presentation then ask yourself why the American public doesn't want to see McCain? The 2 biggest draws this election season are Obama and Palin. Its all about money.